Lisa MatthewsOct 9, 20162016 Fall Gathering, advice, education, fall, family, gathering, homesteading, lifestyle, sessions
On Saturday, October 29th, we will be hosting the 2016 Fall Gathering at our rural Miller farm. We have several local people collaborating to provide a morning of educational exhibitions on various topics that support a self-sufficient lifestyle and back-to-basics...
Lisa MatthewsSep 18, 2016canning, carrots, garden, homesteading, lifestyle, pantry staples, preservation, pressure canning
I love growing my own food in the garden to can, but let’s be realistic for a few minutes. There are times when there is a “crop failure” and you simply do not get enough of one item to can up for your family. There are also those that...
Lisa MatthewsAug 11, 2016advice, balance, family, homesteading, lifestyle
I would love to say I have a wealth of Wisdom, but actually, this post is more about aging and my observations of the changes that aging makes on the homesteader than real wisdom. Some say with age comes wisdom, and that is true to a point, but there are so many...
Lisa MatthewsJul 24, 2016canning, corn, gardening, growing food, homesteading, lifestyle, preservation, pressure canning
I home canned corn for the first time in 2014. Prior to that, we had always frozen our corn for home storage. While this is a great way to preserve corn, in the summer of 2013, we had a freezer go out, and did not discover it quickly enough to save...
Lisa MatthewsJul 1, 2016homesteading, lifestyle, Uncategorized
Over the last couple of weeks I have become involved in a couple of conversations that have really gotten me thinking deeply about my motivation for living the lifestyle that I do. I was raised on a farm in SW Missouri and, though we weren’t necessarily living...
Lisa MatthewsJun 13, 2016cooking, dehydrating, DIY, gardening, growing food, herbs, homesteading, lifestyle, pantry staples, plants, preservation, seasoning
The end of last week it was time to clip the tops of the onions. I use this process to encourage the bulbs to get larger so that your onions are bigger and better at harvest time. So, what to do with the laundry basket full of green tops? Why, dehydrate them, of...
